A big THANK YOU to our 2014 Sponsors: Toad Hall and Badlands
owner Les Natali, SF LGBT Pride Celebration Committee, The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, The Apothecarium,
The Steamworks, Powerhouse,Haus of StarFish,The Castro Lions Club, Hodgkins Jewelers, Starbucks for the coffee, tea, snacks and store volunteers, and Barefoot
and Bubbly for the champagne to be used in the christening of the 2014 Pink Triangle.
For help inspiring volunteers The Bay Area Reporter, The San Francisco Bay Times,
Betty's List for "media sponsors".

SPECIAL THANKS in 2014 to the San Francisco Police Department Park Station for providing traffic control but also providing regular patrols around the clock at the Twin Peaks area to keep an eye on the pink triangle tarp which has been vandalized in previous years. THANK YOU ALL!

The goal of the Pink Triangle ceremony:

is to remind people of what can happen when hatred and bigotry become law. Discriminatory laws led to the creation of the Pink Triangle patch that homosexuals were forced to wear in Nazi concentration camps, and the Yellow Star of David badge that Jews were forced to wear under Nazi occupation,
and a whole series of colored patches for each of their targeted groups of "undesirables". We try to prevent such hatred from happening again.

Even though the legalized Homophobia, anti-Semitism and hatred toward many other minorities which took place in Nazi Germany
80 years ago no longer exist there today, such hatred certainly persists in many parts of the world including Uganda, Nigeria, Brunei, Iran, Iraq, Malawi, Jamaica, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Russia and many others.

Unfortunately, there are 77 countries where homosexuality is illegal. There
are 38 African countries which criminalize homosexuality. Sadly, the punishment is death in four of those: Mauritania, northern Nigeria, southern Somalia and Sudan. While it is not illegal in Russia anymore, President Putin last summer signed an anti-gay propaganda law, and local governments
often look the other way when confronted with obvious hate crimes. There is still much discrimination toward the LGBT community.

During the Pink Triangle Commemoration Ceremony at 10:30 am on Saturday June 28, 2014 various speakers will point out that the kind of hatred that existed
in the 1930's and 40's still exists today.

The test of any democracy is how well it treats its minorities. The Third Reich demonstrates how easily a government can devise minority scapegoats. During the Holocaust, the Nazi's devised a whole array of colored triangles to label and distinguish their "undesirables".
Branding homosexuals as criminals let most Germans feel comfortable looking the other way, while the Nazis went about their persecution. This is a tactic now being used in several countries again. Click here for further history information.

A big THANK YOU to our 2013 Sponsors: Toad Hall and Badlands
owner Les Natali, SF LGBT Pride Celebration Committee, The Apothecarium,
The Steamworks, Powerhouse,Haus of StarFish,The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence,
The Castro Lions Club, Hodgkins Jewelers, Starbucks for the coffee(and tea), and Barefoot
and Bubbly for the champagne to be used in the christening of the 2013 Pink Triangle.
For help inspiring volunteers The Bay Area Reporter, The San Francisco Bay Times,
Betty's List(for email promotion).

The 2013 Pink Triangle was installed on Twin Peaks thanks to the more than 175 volunteers who showed up Sat morning, June 29th, 2013--see KTVU News coverage: Large turnout!

SPECIAL THANKS in 2013 to the San Francisco Police Department Park Station for providing traffic control but also, for the first time, assigning officers to keep an eye on the pink triangle tarp which has been vandalized in previous years. THANK YOU ALL!

Guest speaker Andy Bell, the lead singer of the pop group Erasure
gave "The History of the Pink Triangle." He is one of the most
acclaimed and beloved singers in British and US pop. He has five #1 hits and has had 17 Top-10 UK singles.

Guest speaker: The Deputy Lord Mayor of Sydney Australia Phillip
Black added an international perspective to the discussion of the persecution
of those within the LGBT community worldwide. He also spoke of the great
positive aspects our community enjoys within Sydney.

Guest speakeractress ClorisLeachman
gave "The History of the Pink Triangle." She is an Emmy and
Oscar-winning actress of stage, film, and television. She has won eight
Primetime Emmy Awards--more than any other female performer, and won an Oscar
for "The Last Picture Show."

Guest speaker Congressman Jared Polis of Colorado, was
unable to attend at the last minute.

Guest speaker Lieutenant Dan Choi
graduated from the U. S. Military Academy at West Point
in 2003 with a degree in Arabic and Environmental Engineering. His fluency in
Arabic and West Point degree became very useful to the Army's mission in Iraq as he did
not need to use an interpreter. He declared his sexual orientation publicly on
national television, on The Rachel Maddow Show,
resulting in his recent notification of discharge despite his desire to
continue serving. He fights for the repeal of the discriminatory Don't Ask
Don't Tell policy and reminds all soldiers that they are not alone, and
they should never be ashamed of being honest with themselves and others.

Welcome to the home page of the Pink Triangle of San Francisco, the annual commemoration of the gay victims who were persecuted and killed in concentration camps in Nazi Germany starting in 1933 through the end of WWII.
The pink triangle symbol has since evolved into an important reminder for the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community of the continuing homophobia and inhumanity against them and other repressed minorities around the world. We transform the side
of the Twin Peaks north hill facing the Castro district and downtown San Francisco, into a memorial by installing a giant pink triangle made up of dozens of pieces of pink canvas that can be seen from miles away
during SF Pride weekend each year.

Watch a 5 minute video about an early morning installation of the pink triangle on Twin Peaks as filmed and produced by
Sean Chapin Productions, set to music, the song 'Meet Me On The Mountain', sung by Ryan Harrison and written by Shawn Kirchner.